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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 10

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Mr R. H. Nesbitt, Australian Trade Commissioner, and Mr James Payne, assistant trade commissioner, arrived from Wellington yesterday morning. Mr T. H. McCombs, M.P., arrived from Wellington yesterday. Mr D. I. Macdonald, secretary of the Canterbury Employers’ Association, left for Blenheim yesterday morning on association business. To-day he will address the annual meeting of the Nelson Employers’ Association, and will go on to Wellington, returning to Christchurch on Sunday morning. Mr A. H. Hobbs, vice-president of the Dominion Federation of Justices of the Peace Association, left for Wellington last evening to attend a deputation to the Minister for Justice (the Hon, H. G. R. Mason) this morning. Mr John Parsons, Barcelona, Spain, who has visited relatives in New Zealand every two years for a considerable time, has arrived in England with his family aboard a British warship, according to private advice received by cable. Mr Parsons was in the Dominion last summer. Mr E. Abbey Jones, managing director of the “Southland News,” was a passenger by the Mariposa which sailed from Sydney yesterday for Auckland. Mr H. Digby Smith, Assistant-Commissioner of Pensions, has been appointed commissioner in succession to Mr J. H. Boyes, who was recently appointed one of the Public Service Commissioners. The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr J. W. Beanland) was a passenger for Wellington by the steamer express, last evening; He will'be engaged on municipal business connected with the Dominion Centennial, , and will return to Christchurch to-morrow. Acting upon medical advice, the Rev. D. Gardner Miller, pastor of Trinity Congregational Church, Worcester street, has decided not to take part in any public activities during the next three months so that he may have a complete rest. During that time provision will be made for his pulpit to be "filled. It is hoped that three months’ rest will completely restore Mr Gardner Miller’s health. Before commencing the sale in the fat* pig section at Addington yards yesterday, Mr W. G. Hanham, on behalf of the auctioneers engaged at the market, expressed regret at the death since the last sale of Mr Harry Stewart, one of the oldest buyers at Addington. Mr Stewart was one of the last of the early per-' sonalities at Addington, and was highly respected by all with whom he came in contact. Those present observed a brief period of silence as a mark of respect to the memory of Mr Stewart. mi?"* 1 ?,. ev - Er. John Dickie, principal of the Theological Hall in Knox College, Dunedin, passed through Christchurch last evening on his way to America, Great Britain, and Europe. He has been granted by the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand a year’s leave of absence, marking the end of 25 years of service o theological Hall, and during his visit to bcotland he will deliver the Gunning lectures at the University of Edinburgh. Mr Kenneth MacLaurin Rudail, formerly of Auckland University College, .Massey Agricultural College, and Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, has been awarded the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University Of Leeds, where he has been engaged for the last two years in research in wool biology. He also Leeds the Ackroyd Memoria l Fellowship at Mr C. C. Dacre, the well-known former Auckland and New Zealand representative cricketer, who has played for Gloucestershire for a number of seasons, is a passenger by the Kangitane, due at Wellington on September 1.